Book Lionel Richie

Lionel Richie is an American singer, songwriter and producer who rose to fame in the 1970s as co-lead singer and songwriter of the Motown group the Commodores, which he joined as a singer and saxophonist in 1968. Born in Tuskegee, Alabama, in 1949, he went solo in 1982 with a debut album that featured the No. 1 hit "Truly." The follow-up, Can't Slow Down (1983), topped the Billboard 200, sold more than 20 million copies and won the Grammy for Album of the Year, with "All Night Long (All Night)" and "Hello" both reaching No. 1. In 1985 he co-wrote "We Are the World" with Michael Jackson, which won the Grammy for Song of the Year, and his "Say You, Say Me" won the Golden Globe and the Academy Award for Best Original Song. He has sold more than 90 million records and won four Grammy Awards. Richie received the Kennedy Center Honors in 2017 and the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song in 2022. His All the Hits residency ran at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas from 2016 to 2018, and he has been a judge on American Idol since 2018.